CP/M-86 is a port of Digital Research's CP/M operating system to the Intel 8088/8086. The earlier CP/M-80 was extremely popular on 8080/Z80 microcomputers.
It was anticipated that CP/M-86 would be the de-facto operating system on IBM's 8088 based IBM Personal Computer. However after a failure between Digital Research and IBM to coordinate a license for the IBM Personal Computer's August 1981 release, IBM instead partnered with Microsoft to release PC-DOS. CP/M-86 for the IBM PC was released on April 1982, but by that time DOS already had a foothold.
CP/M-86 was ported to a number of non IBM compatible platforms that also used the x86 CPU. It later evolved in to DOS Plus and DR-DOS and branched in to Concurrent CP/M-86
CP/M is currently open sourced under the BSD license.
The Columbia Data Product OEM and IBM releases will run on an IBM PC or compatible. Others, however, will not.
The CP/M-86 1.10 [IBM PC] release has known issues running on an AT or with a hard disk controller.
Download name | Version | Language | Architecture | File size | Downloads |
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CPM-86 1.00 [IBM PC] (5.25-160k) | 1.00 [IBM PC] | English | 65.39KB | 1 | |
CPM-86 1.00 [IBM PC] (5.25-160k) (alt) | 1.00 [IBM PC] | English | 1.84MB | 1 | |
CPM-86 1.1 [DRI IBM PC-XT] (5.25-160k) | 1.1 [DRI IBM PC-XT] | English | 20.58MB | 1 | |
CPM-86 1.1 [NCR Decision Mate V] (5.25-DSDD) | 1.1 [NCR Decision Mate V] | English | 147.63KB | 1 | |
CPM-86 1.1 [Olympia People] [German] (5.25-DSQD) | 1.1 [Olympia People] | German | 231.81KB | 0 | |
CPM-86 1.1 [TI Professional Computer] [BETA] (5.25-160kb) | 1.1 BETA Prerelease | English | 39.52MB | 2 | |
CPM-86 1.1 [Zenith Z-100] (5.25-DSDD) | 1.1 [Zenith Z-100] | English | 277.01KB | 1 | |
CPM-86 1.1 r0.9 for NEC APC (8-inch) | 1.1 r0.9 for NEC APC | English | 20.7MB | 1 | |
CPM-86 1.10 [IBM PC-XT] (5.25-320k) | 1.10 [IBM PC-XT] | English | 84.45KB | 1 | |
CPM-86 1.10 [IBM PC] (5.25-160k) | 1.10 [IBM PC] | English | 154.58KB | 1 | |
CPM-86 1.x Manual [IBM OEM r1.00] | 1.x [IBM OEM r1.00] | English | 9.14MB | 1 | |
CPM-86 R1.1 [CDP OEM V1.5] (5.25-320k) | R1.1 [CDP OEM V1.5] | English | 92.42KB | 1 | |
CPM-86 R1.1 [CDP OEM V1.6] (5.25-320k) | R1.1 [CDP OEM V1.6] | English | 140.25KB | 1 | |
CPM-86 R1.1 [CDP OEM V1.7] (5.25-320k) | R1.1 [CDP OEM V1.7] | English | 207.42KB | 1 | |
CPM-86 V1.1B [Eagle Computer OEM] (5.25-320k) | V1.1B [Eagle Computer OEM] | English | 171.57KB | 3 |